Shutter-bower



(No Model.)

R. R. WALLNG.

SHUTTER BOWER.

110.415,21()I Patented Jan.2'7,1891.

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REVERDY R. XVALLIN G, OF FREDERICK, MARYLAND.

sHUTTER-BOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,210, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed October 14, 1890. Serial No. 368,075. (No model.)

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, REVERDY R. WALLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Frederick, in the county of Frederick, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shutter-Bowers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to devices for securing window-blinds in any desired position; and the objects of my invention are to provide simple and inexpensive means for fastening a shutter so that it cannot be shaken loose by the wind, and in which the parts can be as operative when applied to a right-hand shutter as to a left-hand shut-ter, and thus permit a smaller stock of parts of the shutterbowers to be kept by hardware stores.

Another object is to form a self-lock and permit shutters to be doubly locked without the addition of parts, and is an improvement upon Patent No. 20,180, granted to Zimmerman, January 28, 1890.

I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l. is a perspective view of a port-ion of the lower part of a window frame and shutter provided with devices to bow the latter and constructed in accordance with 1n yinvention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same. Fig. il is a transverse vertical section on line ,e of Fig. 2. Fig. lisa top View of a portion of the shutter-retaining rod of malleable cast metal before it is connected to the bracket-pin of the shutter.

ln said drawings, A represents the sill of a window-frame, and B the shutter. To the inner face of thelatter is securedahorizontallyslotted arm C, the base-plate C2 of which is of such length as to extend upon a portion of the upright stile and also upon the bottom rail of the shutter, and as some of its retaining-screws are inserted into each of these parts it forms an iron connection therefor and gives strength to the shutter at one of its weak points. The top and bottoni branches of the arm C are united together near their outer ends by a pin c, made either integral therewith or inserted in perforations made therein.

They are furthermore united on the outer side by a vertical plate or rib o2, formed integral therewith, and said rib assists in relieving the pivot-pin c of strain from the bracerod D, as the loop d of the latter is adapted to bear against the ribwhen it loosely embraces the pin c.

The rod D is made,preferably, of malleable cast-iron, with the side d2 of its loop open, as shown in Fig. 4, and after it is made to pass around the pin c itis pressed or closed against the body of the rod, as shown in Fig. 2. Said part of the body of the bolt has a short bend to permit it to reach beyond the edge of the window-frame without touching it when the shutter is to be locked in an open position. The opposite end of the rod D is provided with a vertical cross-head D2, one part of which extends above said rod and the other below, so that the same casting C C2 and rod D can be used in connection with eithera right-hand or a left-hand shutter. The cross-head D2 can also be used as a handle to lift the rod D.

To retain the shutter either in a closed and locked or in apartly-open position, a sill-plate E is screwed to the sill A. Said plate is in the form of a T and has in its body a series of round perforations e and a larger square hole e2 in its head. The two branches of the sill-plate have their ends e3 turned up, so that either one is adapted to enter into engagement with a pivoted catch F, secured to the shutter, and the outer face of the ends e3 are beveled to permit thehooked lip f of the catch to automatically ride up the beveled ends e3 and drop into engagement therewith when the shutter is closed. The outer end or handle of the catch F hasa D-shaped perforation F2 therein to freely receive one of the standing parts of the cross-head of the rod D and be doubly locked vby the lat-ter. The inner end of the catch F has trunnions f2, serving as pivots therefor, that are received in the rearwardly-recessed cap-plate G. One of the screws connecting said plate to the shutter is preferably inserted in its upright sti le and the other in the bottom rail to give strength to the blind at that point. To give the desired strength to the body of the catch without materially increasing its Weight, it is provided with a rib f3 on top thereof and the cap-plate IOO G has an open top at g to give free play to the catch and its rib. Upon the sill is also se-I cured a small Vplate H, having a central cup or perforation to receive the cross-head'of the rod D when it is desired to retain the shutter in an open position.

Having now fully described my invention, I clairni 1. In a shutter-bower, the combination of the horizontally-slotted arm C, havinga base` plate and a side rib c2 uniting the top vand bottom portions of said slotted arm, the bent rod D, having a cross-head D2 -extending above and below said rod, and a 'sill-plate E, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the horizontally-slotted arm C, the bent rod D, having a crosshead Dzextending above and below said rod,

the' pivoted catch F, having aperforated 'handle F2 to receive one of the extensions of the ted arm C, the bent rod D, having a crosshead D2 extending above and below said rod,

the pivoted catch F,having a perforated hane die F2 to receive one of the yextensions of the head D2, a rib f3 on top thereof, and a cap-.plate G, having an opening in itsrtop for lthe passage of the catch and its top rib, and

a T- shaped sillplate having perforations therein and two hooked ends e3, substantially as described.

In testimony whereoi` I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

REVERDY RJ WALLING.

Witnesses:

CHAS. B. T. HENDRICKSEN, ALLEN G. QUYNN. 

